Friday, 30 April 2010

Ron Howard to direct DARK TOWER movie trilogy

Ron Howard, director of films such as The Da Vinci Code, Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind, has signed on to tackle a movie trilogy based on Stephen King's seven-volume Dark Tower sequence. According to the source, there is also the possibility of a spin-off television series being developed simultaneously.

The series, which sees a gunslinger named Roland making his way to the forbidding Dark Tower, is the unifying cosmological link between much of King's other work, although its sales have not been at the same level as his other, more stand-alone books. King is currently writing a new Dark Tower novel that falls earlier in the books' timeline.

J.J. Abrams and the writing team behind Lost, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, had previously discussed adapting the series as a seven-season TV series, but had changed their minds given the desire to have a break after the conclusion of the six-year Lost project.

I have THE GUNSLINGER but haven't read it yet. As it's quite short I was thinking of reading it soon (to knock off all the short books from my reading list quite quickly), but then if I really got into it I'd need to get the other books in one go, which I can't really afford at the moment.

This scares me A LOT. I don't know if anyone will EVER be able to capture the beauty of the tower in a movie-- especially a trilogy. But if someone is brave enough to try, he better know what he's getting into!!!!!

The fact that the lost guys gave up on it should be a signal as to why this shouldn't be done. They love the series and some whitehats tell em they gotta do it in three movies and some bullshit tv series..which most likely wouldnt be hbo or the like (they cancelled deadwood in three seasons because it was too expensive to produce.) network tv adaptation would be a catastrophe and blasphamy..they deny it probably out of respect. Then you get some whore to do it in three movies who could give two shits about integrity.brutal.

I don't understand why they are focusing on the epic, that is that is the Dark Tower series. Why not get marvel involved in a film based on the graphic novel/book four Wizard & Glass? It's short, and would be a great jumping off point for a t.v. mini-series, in the future.